Freedoms Given, Freedoms WonFreedoms Given, Freedoms Won explores the ways Afro Brazilians in two major cities adapted to the new conditions of life after the abolition of slavery and how they confronted limitations placed on their new freedom. The book sets forth new ways of understanding why the abolition of slavery did not yield equitable fruits of citizenship, not only in Brazil, but throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. Afro Brazilians in Sao Paulo and Salvador lived